Items with tag “urban legend”

January 20, 2012, 9:18AM

There is a persistent popular urban legend that prior to Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers had wanted to build peripheral barriers around the city of New Orleans but local agencies blocked the corps and forced it to build what it considered 'inferior flood protection.' This misinformation, promulgated by senior corps officials, and printed in major media from 2005... Full story »